Tangier Syndrome is a disorder that is caused by a severe reduction of the good Cholesterol, which is very rare, only occurring in 50 known cases worldwide. The people that this occurs in have some fat in their bloodstream. This disease is extremely rare. The low HDL count causes the body to stop producing the protein that transport the fat through the blood, and it causes the disease to occur.
Tonsils
Cause of Tangier's
The way that you can get this is through malnutrition or genetically and it can affect your vision. Another name for the disease is Hypolipopproteinemia. This syndrome is named after Tangier's Island in Virginia. It is believed that some of the crew of the founder were carriers, and passed it down the bloodline.
Symptoms
The symptoms include swollen, yellow-orange, tonsils, low cholesterol levels in the plasma, and esters on the spleen, liver, skin, and lymph nodes. The treatment currently used for Tangier's disease is heart surgery or even removal of organs in some cases.
Karyotype
The karyotype of Tangier's Syndrom is normal.
David Gregg
Tangier Syndrome is a disorder that is caused by a severe reduction of the good Cholesterol, which is very rare, only occurring in 50 known cases worldwide. The people that this occurs in have some fat in their bloodstream. This disease is extremely rare. The low HDL count causes the body to stop producing the protein that transport the fat through the blood, and it causes the disease to occur.
Cause of Tangier's
The way that you can get this is through malnutrition or genetically and it can affect your vision. Another name for the disease is Hypolipopproteinemia. This syndrome is named after Tangier's Island in Virginia. It is believed that some of the crew of the founder were carriers, and passed it down the bloodline.
Symptoms
The symptoms include swollen, yellow-orange, tonsils, low cholesterol levels in the plasma, and esters on the spleen, liver, skin, and lymph nodes. The treatment currently used for Tangier's disease is heart surgery or even removal of organs in some cases.
Karyotype
The karyotype of Tangier's Syndrom is normal.
Questions:
1. What is Tangier's Syndrome named after?
2. Is the disease rare or frequent?
3. What do the tonsils look like of a patient?
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=tangierdisease
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jcthomas/JCTHOMAS/1997%20Case%20Studies/J.%20Newman1.html
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/medical/tangier_disease.htm